Saturday, November 15

Announcing Eat Christmas Cookies, Season 2! A Food Blog(ga) Event

Yup, it is currently 89 degrees in San Diego (it was 93 degrees at the mall, where I was earlier). November 15th, and it's 90 degrees. This is hard for a New England girl to comprehend.

Sweat was pouring down my back as I marched through a tinsel tinged mall, listening to Christmas Carols. Weird.

So when I got home, I had to get things moving, and there is only way to do that: Let's start Eat Christmas Cookies, Season 2! You can check out last year's amazing round-up of cookies from around the world.

So start baking and send me any and all Christmas cookies; truffles and brownies count too. Just no pies or cakes, please. Santa really prefers cookies.

Here's how you can participate:

Post about a Christmas cookie from today, November 15th through Sunday,December 21st at midnight PST. I will be posting your recipes as I receive them, so the earlier you send them in, the more likely someone else will see your recipe and try it for Christmas.

Within the post:

Please link to this page so others can participate.

CHANGE as of Dec 19th. Please link to the new Round-Up, Part 2 page so people can see the cookies as they are posted here. Part 1 can be found here.

If you really want to score some points with Santa this year, then you can also put the festive Christmas Cookie Logo below.

If you know how to re-size pictures, then please send along a 200 X 200 pixel pic of your cookies. If I don't see a re-sized pic attached, then I'll come get it at your blog.

Multiple entries are allowed.

Don’t have a blog but would like to participate? No problem. Just email me your name, location, recipe, and brief description or story about the cookies. Please attach a 200 X 200 pixel picture to the email if you’d like it to accompany your recipe.

And we leave on Tuesday starting our holiday travels. I would love to bake some cookies for this, have to see what I can work into the travels. If not I know you'll still come out with a tremendous showing and I be hanging on everyone.

I'm so not the cookie baker in my family, but your invitation is so, well, inviting that might just have to join in. As Anali said, I'll have to wait until Thanksgiving is over to focus on this. I'm looking forward to it!

hi susan!just wanted to tell you that i tried your pear coffee cake recipe yesterday and it`s gorgeous!also have a question: do yoou happen to have a recipe for pumpkin-chicken quiche? thanks for your help,best,anja ( tair@gmx.de)

I just scored some points with Santa--I put your cookie logo on my sidebar. :)I'll be sending in some "Snowball" cookies next week.I know what you mean about the temps being in the 80s and 90s around the holidays. I live in San Antonio and it's so weird to see all the Christmas decorations next to the palm trees.